Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> On 2/12/08, Charles Jones <charles.jones@ciscolearning.org> wrote:
>   
>> Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>>     
>>>   why would you want to use putty on Linux?  just use the standard
>>> command line SSH.
>>>
>>>   putty is useful on Win32 though.
>>>
>>>       
>> I've used it before because putty can ssh through a SOCKS proxy
>> connection, and the standard ssh cannot.
>>     
>
>  Charles,
>
>  the fruit of a 2 minute google search:
>
>   http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archives/2004/11/22/ssh_socks/
>
>  and yes "I'm Feeling Lucky!" :)
>
>   -jmz
>   
If you're gonna use SOCKS, you might as well do it all. ;) This explains 
a nifty option in Firefox 
http://outflux.net/blog/archives/2006/12/07/paranoid-browsing-with-squid/

-Mike